1. I saw this picture at Bing and immediately thought of my wife and her friend who did the Antarctic cruise with Seabourn about this time of year a couple of years ago now.

     

    Iceberg off the coast of Antarctica

    There’s more than meets the eye in this image of an iceberg floating off the coast of Antarctica. That’s because about 90 percent of every iceberg exists beneath the surface of the water—and it can be hard to gauge its shape from the surface. The largest recorded iceberg, known as B-15, had a surface area larger than the island of Jamaica (just imagine what that baby looked like under water!). On the other end of the spectrum, hunks of ice smaller than 16 feet across are known as ‘bergy bits’ and ‘growlers.’
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  2. Are Icebergs Made of Fresh Water or Salt Water?

    https://www.thoughtco.com/fresh-or-salt-water-icebergs-609402
    Icebergs form as a result of two main processes, producing a freshwater iceberg: Ice that forms from freezing seawater typically freezes slowly enough that it forms crystalline water (ice), which does not …

  3. Are icebergs made of fresh water or salt water? - Quora

    https://www.quora.com/Are-icebergs-made-of-fresh-water-or-salt-water
    Calving of Ice shelves or glaciers. When a large chunk of an ice shelf or a glacier breaks off and floats into the sea, it forms and iceberg. Since all the glaciers and ice shelves are snow, i.e., frozen fresh water, the icebergs so formed are undoubtedly fresh water.